Counter-Concealment Research Scientist — LUCENT

Build systems that have to work.

LUCENT combines thermal, optical, RF and contextual sensing to identify targets whose signatures do not behave like ordinary objects. The Counter-Concealment team studies both vehicle-applied coatings and personal-applied creams or gels designed to confuse automated perception systems.

What you’ll do

• Develop multimodal detection and anomaly-fusion algorithms for concealed vehicles and persons.
• Design test campaigns spanning aerial thermal, optical, lidar and RF sensing.
• Quantify false-positive behavior in dense urban traffic and public-safety scenarios.
• Partner with law-enforcement users on safe operating concepts and evidentiary requirements.
• Build robust evaluation datasets while protecting sensitive countermeasure details.

Minimum qualifications

• Ph.D. or equivalent experience in computer vision, remote sensing, signal processing, physics or applied mathematics.
• Strong experience with multispectral sensing, probabilistic inference or sensor fusion.
• Ability to work with controlled law-enforcement and security datasets.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with thermal imaging, hyperspectral methods, lidar or RF sensing.
• Research in camouflage, adversarial perception, counter-UAS or low-observable detection.
• Background deploying models to airborne or edge-compute platforms.

Mission environment

Work alternates between secure research labs, instrumented road networks and aerial test ranges. Occasional night testing is expected.

Compensation & benefits

The estimated U.S. base salary range for this position is $231,000–$318,000. Actual compensation depends on experience, location, role scope and applicable differentials. Eligible employees receive comprehensive health coverage, retirement benefits, paid leave, continuing education support and Argent employee programs.